During Their Time at SLU

Research and Internships

"I helped perform economic research with Dr. Podgursky at the Applied Center for Economic Research, trying to predict the economic impact of the NGA investment in North St. Louis at a more granular level using GIS systems"

"The past two summers, I have conducted research on endocrine causes of hypertension by studying the role of extracellular vesicle mRNA, particularly the Mineralocorticoid Receptor (MR) in response to Aldosterone and Spironolactone."

"I studied bumblebees in Lijiang, China with PhD candidate Alan Moss through the Billiken Bee Lab."

"I was an undergraduate research fellow in the theology department under the Lived Religion in the Digital Age project, which focused on the lived experience of religion in the St. Louis area."

"I completed research at the Washington University Optical Radiology Lab (PI: Adam Eggebrecht) where I ran neuroimaging brain scans (HD-DOT), processed data, created reports regarding data, wrote sections of a variety of neuroimaging papers as a co-author, and am presenting on 4/9 at the Sigma Xi SLU symposium an example of this neuroimaging work with Alzheimers patients."

"During my 1st year, I started a paid internship at Complete Eye Care, Inc in St. Louis. I've learned so many different tests that I'm now qualified to do to patients and I have gotten hundreds of hours of individual, face-to-face care with patients."

"I completed a volunteer internship with St. Louis Children's Hospital's expressive therapies department as Art Enrichment Intern."

"I have completed two internships for SLU credit during my time at SLU, both unpaid. My first was with ARCHELON: The Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, and satisfied my Environmental Studies Internship requirement. As an intern, I worked on the beach facilitating beach cleanups, setting up beach markers, tracking sea turtle reproductive activity, measuring sea level rise, and collecting data on beachfront protection regulations for the local municipal government."

Service

"I was an active member of SLU's St. Benedict Joseph Labre Ministry with the homeless starting my sophomore year. At Labre, I helped cook meals for the unhoused members of the St. Louis community and then helped distribute the food downtown on Wednesday nights."

"I volunteered at Girls INC consistently until Covid. I learned about it through my sorority, because it's our philanthropy. I loved it so much! At girls INC, I'd help girls with homework, lead fun things like play or dance or yoga, and just be an extra set of eyes and ears to give the girls encouragement and attention."

"My primary service contributions were to SLU Hospital as an Emergency Department Ambassador and also at the Hope Lodge. My position at the Hope Lodge was more aligned with my goals for service in fostering relationships with cancer patients and their families and contributing to the community life."

"I have volunteered with Overground Railroad to Literacy, a tutoring organization since Fall 2018. I organized and led the painting of several murals at a local elementary school and began Overground's Art Enrichment Program, which provides weekly art-making programs to students of St. Louis Public schools."

"I served with the Emergency Winter Shelter program my sophomore and junior year. For sophomore year, I helped to set up the winter shelter when we had those deadly temperatures and weather conditions, and my junior year, I volunteered each day that the shelter was happening."

"Throughout the last four years, I have been involved in Habitat for Humanity, where I have held a range of leadership positions, including president, and led many volunteer trips locally, in the state, and in Texas."

Leadership

"I have served as the Chair of the Mission and Ministry Committee within SGA for two years, the Senator for the College of Arts and Sciences for four total semesters (I had to step down because I went abroad and had a class conflict), and I served as the VP of Events for Student Activities Board."

"I held various leadership roles within SLU Dance Marathon, the most prominent of which being my executive board position as Fundraising Chair during 2020."

"I held positions as Lead or Co-Lead of the Structures subsystem and Integration and Testing Team for the Space Systems Research Lab here at SLU. I have also served as the Recruiter for AIAA and now the President of the student chapter of the organization. I have also been an Honors program mentor since sophomore year."

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